BIOGRAPHY FELLOW 2015 – 2016

Blake Gopnik

For a biography of Andy Warhol

Blake Gopnik is a regular contributor to the New York Times and a frequent guest on Marketplace radio. His Daily Pic column goes out to his many Tumblr and Twitter followers and ArtnetNews.com, where he is Critic at Large. Gopnik earned a PhD in art history from Oxford, and in Canada he was the editor of Insite, the architecture and design magazine, and art critic at The Globe and Mail. For ten years he was chief art critic of The Washington Post, before becoming art and design critic for Newsweek and its Daily Beast website. As a Leon Levy fellow he worked on Andy Warhol: A Life as Art, the first comprehensive biography of the Pop artist, published by HarperCollins/Ecco.